John Forbes Kerry, who has voiced his presidential aspirations since high school, criticized America's "intervention" in Vietnam before going to the war, confirmed his beliefs during five months of duty there and returned to build a career in politics based on his opposition to it. The United States must, I think, bring itself to understand that the policy of intervention that was right for Western Europe does not and cannot find the same application to the rest of the world," Mr. Kerry told his Yale University classmates in a 1966 graduation address.
I still am infuriated and offended by the Daily Mail's lead editorial on June 21, "Another failure of national will? It was absurd to suggest support for a planned withdrawal of troops from Iraq beginning in 15 months is giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
... to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on... bring in the concept of adhering to the enemy and giving him aid and comfort, but these are not ...
The undeniable fact is that President Obama has gotten a racial pass from Blacks. This tormenting fact ignited brief finger pointing between the Rev. Al Sharpton and talk show host Tavis Smiley. It's hardly the first time that Blacks publicly and more often privately have wrung their hands over Obama's absolute unwillingness to say and do more for blacks. This prompts even more hand wringing over why Blacks still give him an irrevocable pass. The hand wringing is as pointless as the demand for Obama to embrace a Black agenda. It's not going to happen, in fact it can't happen. That didn't matter. Blacks still swooned, gushed, and reveled in the [Bill Clinton] magic and mystique. In polls, he ranked even higher than [Jesse Jackson] and Min. Louis Farrakhan as the "Black" leader Blacks mos...
... and meek criticism it will give aid and comfort to the enemy, and earn a slap as a race traitor. B...
By JOHN YOO WHAT if a college dean barred from campus recruiting any law firm that provided free representation to al-Qaida terrorists? Suppose she believes that the firms are providing aid and comfort to the enemy in wartime.
Though he was summarily dismissed by President Obama and replaced by General Patraeus, we must remember that Gen. Stanley McChrystal has been the best weapon we've had for the war in Iraq and the nearly impossible war in Afghanistan. McChrystal's lapse in judgment for allowing Rolling Stone reporters around him and his staff notwithstanding, the magazine is a treasonous rag for publishing anything that gives aid and comfort to the enemy, which it did with a condescending profile of McChrystal: "The Runaway General seized control of the war by never taking his eye off the real enemy: The wimps in the White House." Unfortunately, the commander-in-chief only exacerbated the problem.
President Bush was quick to react angrily against The New York Times for exposing U.S. monitoring of SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications) as a suspected conduit for the transfer of terrorist funds. Former Attorney General Edwin Meese accused the newspaper of giving "aid and comfort to the enemy," which is tantamount to treason.
The Constitution's 14th Amendment, Section 3, states, "No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice- President... who has engaged in .... or given aid and comfort to the enemies thereof.' Lt. John Kerry met with NVA and Vietcong Communist leaders in Paris in 1970 during the time he was a Navy officer. The Uniform Code of Military Justice defines this as "aid and comfort to the enemy.'
In "Bad idea, at the wrong time," (April 18), The Augusta Chronicle claims that demands for firing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld give "aid and comfort to the enemy." Labeling critics as unpatriotic, even traitorous, is a classic Bush administration tactic that this newspaper uses reflexively, uncritically and often. But The Chronicle is wrong. What gave aid and comfort to the enemy was Rumsfeld's decision to commit too few troops to post- invasion Iraq when his generals pleaded for more. What gave aid and comfort to the enemy was underequipping many of the forces Rumsfeld did commit. Surely the enemy was comforted by Rumsfeld's decision to disband the remnants of Saddam's Sunni army, including the only experienced military leadership in Iraq.
The late Rep. John Murtha, Pennsylvania Democrat, has achieved his highest undeserved honor. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus has decided to name the Navy's newest San Antonio Class amphibious transport- dock LPD 26 the USS John P. Murtha. This is a slap in the face to every service member who bridled when Murtha publicly accused Marines in Iraq of intentionally killing women and children in cold blood. Murtha made his views known after details emerged about a firefight in Haditha in November 2005 in which 24 Iraqis were killed. Murtha accused the Marines of engaging in premeditated murder and agreed with MSNBC's Chris Matthews that this was "exactly" like the 1968 My Lai massacre in Vietnam. Charges later were brought against eight Marines but have since been dropped against all but one. Howev...
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